While I may not be able to pull this off every Thursday, I really like being able to make this a full-day theme since my Shorebird of the Week post will come up at 7:00 tonight. There were a couple of notes I wanted to bring up about this upcoming weekend’s games that I thought were important. (This doesn’t count the beanie giveaway for Friday night’s game.)
This weekend will be “Autism Awareness Weekend” at Perdue Stadium and as part of this there will be a hat auction during Saturday night’s game. If it is similar to one I participated in last season, each Shorebirds player will have a special commemorative cap for the evening and at the conclusion of the contest will sign their game-worn cap and award it to the highest bidder. (Last year I purchased former field coach Kimera Bartee’s cap – gotta show some love for those Detroit Tiger alumni.) Most likely the minimum bid will be $25 or so but that’s not a bad donation to the cause at all so I may pick up another one. And something tells me that there just might be a cap signed by former Oriole standout Tippy Martinez, who will also make an appearance at the game as a guest.
Plus Saturday will be a fireworks night and, like last Saturday, be a reward night for young readers from outlying counties. So lots of kids will be about.
If you’re like me and just love to watch baseball without as many frills, there’s games Friday night, Sunday afternoon (hopefully with better weather than last Sunday’s fiasco), Monday night, and a twi-night doubleheader to wrap up the homestand Tuesday night beginning at 6:05 p.m. That’s to make up for last Sunday. Lakewood is in town over the weekend then we’ll have Hagerstown here again Monday and Tuesday. (After the seven early-season games with the Washington Nationals affiliate, we next see the Suns in mid-June to begin the second half then we’ll be finished with hosting them for the season.)
Hopefully I will see you at the ballyard this weekend.
If you were real quick last night you’d have seen the preview of this. I forgot to reset the timestamp before I hit “Publish” so it was up for about 30 seconds. I guess it’s one of the pitfalls of pre-blogging but I like to space my posts out timewise.
